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What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic didn’t just join the Series H club, it almost became the first $1 trillion private company ever

The $65 billion funding round was led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia, more than doubling the company’s valuation in just three months.

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